I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
JOHN DEWEYThere’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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